Sharanya Manivannan was born in India and grew up in Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Her first book of poems is Witchcraft. She has received the Lavanya Sankaran Fellowship and the Elle Fiction Award. She wrote a column, The Venus Flytrap, for The New Indian Express, and her fiction, poetry, and essays have been widely published internationally, including in Drunken Boat, Wasafiri, Hobart, and elsewhere.